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A Korean American group in Los Angeles and volunteer developers have created a multilingual smartphone app for immigrants who are worried about deportation and are stopped by authorities. The app called "Know your Rights" provides immigrants with a list of their basic legal rights in five languages: Korean, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, and English. Immigrants can refer to the list to assert their rights when detained by immigration agents or stopped by police.

LOS ANGELES, CA - As tensions are high in immigrant communities due to fear of deportation and family separation NAKASEC and KRC are launching a Know Your Rights mobile app for Android, and later iOS, with the help of volunteers from a high tech company. The app was specifically created for community members who are in crisis or have been approached by police or Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) with border communities and various language speakers in mind. The Know Your Rights app is now available for download for Android on Google Play.

The administration's new immigration policies will impact everyone regardless of immigration status. Join immigration attorneys and community leaders as we learn about changed immigration policies and discuss the community's response. Send us your questions and we can provide answers at the forum.

Forum Round 1: Thursday, May 18, 2017, 6:30 pm

Forum Round 2: SAturday, June 3rd at 4:00 pm
The first and second forums will have the same content.

LOS ANGELES--Minorities should work together to uplift the most vulnerable of their number--African Americans--according to some speakers at a multiethnic event on Saturday that marked the 25th anniversary of the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Words like "revolution" occasionally punctuated the air as community organizers took aim against conservative societal forces, which activists said had propagated racism and capitalism. Racism and capitalism were the causes of the 1992 civil unrest, some speakers said.

As tensions in heavily immigrant populated areas grow, Fullerton Joint High School District will be given an opportunity protect children of all immigration statuses and ensure a healthy learning environment for undocumented students starting tomorrow at a Fullerton Joint High School District Board of Trustees Meeting. Fullerton has the highest number of Korean Americans in Orange County at 15,544 people and as few know, about one in seven Koreans in the US is undocumented meaning this resolution has the opportunity to affect the lives of many undocumented Korean Americans. The Korean Resource Center (KRC) will continue to advocate for the undocumented community in Orange County by advocating for this resolution.

Join us in a multiracial, cross-cultural commemoration of April 29, 1992, aka Saigu, LA Riots, Uprising, Rebellion, etc. Hear different perspectives on what happened on that fateful day as well how communities of color have been working together for a better, collective future. Dialogue with us on how we can continue to build coalitions across racial lines for a more inclusive Los Angeles.